do not worry about the ballistic missile submarines, for they are countered too easily by truck and train launched submarines, in first second and repeated strikes
it is the hunter-killers (submarines that hunt for other submarines) that must be concerned, as swarmed, autonomous, persistent, pervasive, silent, engine-less (or engined by can do with engine off), loitering, monitoring, safeguarding drone do their duty at $15K a piece, listening for and zero-ing on $3B subs
imagine self to be captain of the sub so hunted, in areas marked off specifically as no-call
of course the air forces' protocol of loyal wingman / wingmen can be applied to drone-swarm submarines, also
peace is best safeguarded through technology and smart-contracts, arguably, as long as all players are told and know the rules
let us see what if anything 'they' say happened to the 'head-on collision submarine that was made deaf and blind in the middle of ocean where it could not have been scraping bottom and did not fender-bend with another submarine'
either a submerged container that did not show up on sonar scan, rather unlikely, or
was struck by something moving, moved into strike position, and stuck, another explanation
wondering whether China or Russia will get the blame |